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We're faced with mile-high piles of money sitting in banks
Gold bars, credit cards, aeroplanes and tanks
Buy, buy, satisfy, call me when you're rich
Cheap food, cows dying in a ditch
We're having a hard time
Holding the thin green line

We're faced with out of town shopping malls, suburban housing boom
Inner city empty lots, damp in all the rooms
Bulls and bears, speculators, Euros, Yen
And the baby's crying again
We're having a hard time
Holding the thin green line

So come on down to the bottle bank
Make your deposit and relax
Nothing's going on behind your backs
We'll make all the big decisions
You just watch the television...
Smash the brown! Smash the green! Smash the clear!
It won't happen here
We're having a hard time
Holding the thin green line

We watch the last of the species - vanish from the screens
And get replaced by killer dogs & their men on the scene
There are peeping toms, pop songs, crime & sin & sex
All spewing out on newsprint while the forest dies a death
They're cooling down reactors while the natives die of thirst
They say let's all pull together - you first
We're having a hard time
Holding the thin green line

They say let's all pull together (you first !!!)
Let's all pull together (you first !!!)
Let's all pull together (you first !!!)
But they never pull together
No wonder we're having a hard time
Holding the thin green line
We're having a hard time
Holding the thin green line.

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from Faith Folk and Anarchy Live, released June 13, 2023

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Martyn Joseph Cardiff, UK

Martyn Joseph is a powerful charismatic singer-songwriter and jaw dropping guitar player, gifted with the rare ability to speak to the soul with his expressive and poignant lyrics. He's a talent driven by passion, social awareness and love for his trade

“One of the most charismatic and electrifying performers in Britain today…tough and passionate”

Tom Robinson BBC 6 music
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